Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …

types of inequality/discrimination, e.g. based on gender, race or sexual orientation. An inquiry into the mechanisms of the …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …